How to format your references using the Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Scholze, M. (2007). Earth network. Nature 447, 228.

A journal article with 2 authors

LaRue, C. C., and Padilla, P. A. (2012). IBI series winner. A mutant search--Caenorhabditis elegans and gene discovery. Science 338, 487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falck, J., Coates, J., and Jackson, S. P. (2005). Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage. Nature 434, 605–611.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chauhan, P., Jain, R., Dey, B., and Tyagi, A. K. (2013). Adjunctive immunotherapy with α-crystallin based DNA vaccination reduces Tuberculosis chemotherapy period in chronically infected mice. Sci. Rep. 3, 1821.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Molino Sr., L. N. (2006). Emergency Incident Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Morgan, F., and Tynan, D. eds. (2015). Robotic Sailing 2014: Proceedings of the 7th International Robotic Sailing Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonet, M. L., and Buss, S. (2012). “An Improved Separation of Regular Resolution from Pool Resolution and Clause Learning,” in Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2012: 15th International Conference, Trento, Italy, June 17-20, 2012. Proceedings, eds. A. Cimatti and R. Sebastiani (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 44–57.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017). Gravitational Waves Might Test For Extra Dimensions. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-waves-might-test-for-extra-dimensions/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1999). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Oil and Gas Industries. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Love, K. S. (2010). Factors infleuncing job satisfaction in nurses. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse, L. (2005). SUPREME COURT TO HEAR DISPUTE ON REDISTRICTING. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Scholze, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Scholze, 2007; LaRue and Padilla, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (LaRue and Padilla, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chauhan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Front. Comput. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	1662-5188
Scope	Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience